In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later in Brave New World Revisited, Huxley checked the... Zobraziť viac
Thirty years ago, ecstasy and torment took hold of John Rivers, shocking him out of “half-baked imbecility into something more nearly resembling the human form.” He had an affair with the wife of his mentor, Henry Maartens ... Zobraziť viac
A chilling look at societal control and the fight for individuality. This classic explores the unsettling accuracy of its dystopian predictions. Zobraziť viac
Contemporary / British English: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is one of the great works of science fiction. It is the year After Ford 632 in the New World. People are born and live by scientific methods... Zobraziť viac
Human beings, graded from intellectuals to manual workers, hatched from incubators and brought up in communal nurseries. ... Zobraziť viac
In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen... Zobraziť viac
Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, ... Zobraziť viac
In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years... Zobraziť viac
1932 erschien eines der größten utopischen Bücher des 20. Jahrhunderts: ein heimtückisch verführerischer Aufriss unserer Zukunft, in der das Glück verabreicht wird wie eine Droge... Zobraziť viac
